W THE EMEU'S IAIL. 'WE extract the following from the S. AM. Herald of Thursday : London, Saturday, 24th December, 1869. Auother importan.t political pamplet has been issued in Parls, emanating fasm the French Gover.. ment, entitiled "The rope and the Congress," by Monsieur de Laquirronieri, author of the pamphlet 'entitledl " Napoleon III. and Italy," which appeared just before the war with Austria. Thse .resent production is received as the views of the Emperor on the Papal question, and, as may be imagined, has cansed no slight sensation, not only because it is considered in the light of a State paper, but also on account of the decision which, it would seem, his Majesty has come towith regard to his Holiness the Pope. The gist of the matter is simply tlsis--that the Pope is not fit to govern a large Sltae--thar his temporal sovereignty ought to be restricted to thle city of Rome; that the Ro magno ought to be separated from the Papacy; that at the same time the Pope must not be ...

OOOALUAVI.. LOCVL ZELIEF COOMQ[+ITTEB.' ?'! ? : The Committee met pursuant to notice, in the Court House, Noera, on Saturday, the 10th day ofMarChi, 1860, at I o'clock, p.m. James Graham, Esq., J. P., Mayor/in the Chair. M[r. Tholmas Boyee, Ras losea" Secretary. - ' n The Secretary-read copies of letterA forwarded by thle Municipal Council; Otno to Charles Kemp, Eeq.;rl'rca surer of the Sydney Relief Committee, and one to the Local RoliofCommitteo. Itoth letters expressive of the desire of the Council to co-operato with the local com mittee in carrying out the -necessary relief. Moved by Dr. Alley, seconded by Mlr. ltugb Ml'Klin non T'hat it Is more eonduclw to rho effctual relier of the sufferor. from the lato foods, that the runds subsaribled n Sydney, ona, other parts of the colony, bq? entrulted to the Slayor uand Cor porstlou,lu co-preraton with the Commltlee chose, at a publls meeLiag, for distrihutlion: as tbey are better acquainted. lith the waonls or thb ser.rl esalercr, ar...

FLOOD RELIEF FUNVD. ONe tho 13th instant, a sum of seventy-live pouds en hiling wa pad b the o-t Treasurer mereisi Bank hlere, to bo advised to tho credit of James Grahaml, 1Esr, Chair~aes of tho Lecal Committee at Shloalhaven ; and a lotter was written by M~r. Merenrs to Mr. Graham inform ing him of the circumstance. To that letter *tbQ following· reply 'baai been reccoivod, which' w~ havre been requested to ~publlsh. There is an error es to the· amoutit, ihieb should· be £76 l~s., nod not £70, as Scknowlcdged b4y Mr. Graham.

. MISOELJ:AINEOUS EXT'RA C'S. A FALL, Six TIMEs TIIE DEPTn OF NIAAIARA. -=The Times" Calcutta correspondent furnishes an account of'the Gairsoppa Fulls, near Honorc, declared to be the depth of Niagara. From the village of Gairsoppa, rcacllcd by a river of tho same name, the writer was carried for twelve miles up the ,Ialinulcoh Pasi, and reaclhed the Falls bungalow about three hours and a half after leaving the top of tile Pass :-" An amphi theatre of woods and a river about 500 yards wide, rushing and boiling to a certain point, where it is lost in a perpetual mist and in an unceasing deafening roar, must first be imagined. Leaving the bungalow on the Mtdras side of th:e river, and descending to a position below the river well,'you work your way up carefully and ihdiously over slippery rocits, until.you reacll a paiiut'wherda'ieok about twice the size of a mate's body juts over a precipice. Resting flat upon tthis rocki aild loolilng over it you see directly before you two out of ...

1, ai' ize'nou,, , :Exite, eNT 'I 'I"?IA"S-. Ihuont AN Er EEPIIANT Loose IN nu , STREETS. :A tremendirne exeiterncnt was created in the iowep',i t-of Williamsburgh, caused by the elephant beloginiig to 'Van Anlrurghl's mona ger ie becomruirng our aged and brealking lonse froir Ihis keeper. 'A ia Illhad been employed to bring soane shaving3 to the nrenragcrie, which wvore brought iii ar faggon. The man drove into ?lJhe tent, and while unlloading tire woggon the dleph unt wais obserrcd to grow restless at the sigh atf tihe hoise, whliel~lriid a white blanket, on. The Sian wa is idvised to take his Ihorso away, but ibefore he could do so the eldphant advanced ,few steps, aid Inocked the man down with i lourw of his trunk. He next seized tire horse by ireatto ohf Ihis trunk tid injured him seriously. lIe tbv€ seicid the wmrg/on, thr'owiig· it up in trhe' air.'didl. breaking. it to pieces. "tis Lnger Was now fully aroused, and, proceeding to the ,'ago of the prairie wolf, he smasled it w...

(m'oo FIIO-. 0. II hRALD.) ;nlrila OTktt;.iE:T KNy~i~ ri',whse. Ilahours in tt e¢uso of populluar-educalion have bebii rnsmaifoldf d.rilr?cis attention in. thoo last' n;umber of tlie! "::Compatiiii-to tlhe Alhinaniu c"to tho xcellenltj :ltirkbck schools1.riginat:d -in Lonidon by, Mh'i Ja"]hllie, in w hich " thoe principles .of political eeoiioiny aro taught to youirs boys and girls, alnId urges the ilmportanc of extending this soit of! '!tealting, is well os this mcethod of teaching, not oill' to schools and colleges gciierally, but' n.o mechanics' institutes throoglIout the king dom,. "irlct great social question of tile oge is, as bce iiee said, the feud between c;ipital sod labor, the due adjustroeot of which is of fir sn ore importance to the present aud cootin?g generations than thle balance of power or ,sny othier of the topics which usually occupy the at ientidn" of statesmen; then surely poliricalf economy may be considered to be the most directly useful of all branches of s...